Calif. Board Picks ETS To Run Testing Program
The Educational Testing Service, which only recently broke into the state accountability market for K-12 students, has won the coveted endorsement of the California state school board to conduct its testing program, starting next year.
Tests administered by the Princeton, N.J.-based ETS are expected to replace the Stanford Achievement Test-9th Edition, the cornerstone of the state assessment system for California students over the past five years.
Under the new, three-year contract, which is still being hammered out, the California Achievement Test (6th edition), another norm-referenced exam, published by CTB/McGraw-Hill, would be given. In addition, the ETS would work with the state on the continued development of standards-based tests in English, math, history/social science, and science. Those tests, which measure how well students have learned the state's content standards, eventually will become the anchor for the...
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